SEOUL: South Korea begins opening COVID-19 vaccine reservations for all adults over 18 for the first time on Monday (Aug 9) as it scrambles to stave off a rise in sporadic outbreaks, many of them among young, unvaccinated residents. South Korea was praised for its handling of the virus in the beginnin
SEOUL: South Korea begins opening COVID-19 vaccine reservations for all adults over 18 for the first time on Monday as it scrambles to stave off a rise in sporadic outbreaks, many of them among young, unvaccinated residents.
South Korea was praised for its handling of the virus in the beginning of the pandemic with thorough tracing and testing, but a slow vaccination uptake has overlapped with a surge in more transmissible variants. Around 45 per cent of South Korea's 52 million population have had at least one dose of vaccine, while just 15 per cent have been fully vaccinated as of Sunday midnight.The country aims to immunise more than 70 per cent of adults by September as it vaccinates those in the 18-49 age bracket with Moderna or Pfizer/BioNTech's products.South Korea's death rate stands at 1.
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